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HORTICULTURE 



January 8, 1910 



HORT1CU1.TUR1L 



70L. XI 



JANUARY 8, 1910 



NO. 2 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— John Cook's New Rose 



"Radiance." 

 PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— B. H. Wilson— 



Illustrated 37 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 38 



MOSSED WALLS— James Robertson 38 



NEW ROSE ■RADIANCE" 39 



CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT— Portrait 39 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 41 



WHITE CATTLEYA LABIATA— Illustrated 41 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia — American Carnation 

 Society — Elberon Horticultural Society — Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society — Society of American 



Florists — Robert Craig, W. N. Rudd, Portraits 42 



Judging Seedling Carnations 43 



Club and Society Notes 44 



SEED TRADE: 



Uniformity of Varietal Character in Garden Vege- 

 tables— Dr. W. W. Tracy 46 



Catalogues Received — Notes 60 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Buffalo — Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores.. 48 

 Silkaline — A Welcome Customer, Illustration — 



Flowers by Telegraph 49 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit 51 



Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia 53 



OBITUARY: 

 August H. Boseck — August Pierson — George H. Ser- 



viss — Martha F. Frauenfelder — John P. Sorenson. ... 61 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Hedge as a Blizzard Buffer, G. C. W 41 



Publications Received 41 



Personal 41 



Chicago Notes 44 



Florists Seize Coal 45 



Another Fruit Tree Fungus 58 



Philadelphia Notes 59 



Business Changes 61 



Fire Record 61 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 62 



Patents Granted 62 



News Notes 62 



Our news columns announce the per- 

 The S. A. F. sonnel of President Pierson's official 

 appointees household for the coming year. An in- 

 novation is seen in the appointments on 

 the Executive Board, two well-seasoned old leaders hav- 

 ing been selected instead of new timber as has been the 

 almost invariable rule in the past. The President is 

 not a man who does things without due consideration 

 and no doubt he sees where experienced war horses can 



help in the work of this important year — the beginning 

 of the second quarter century of the national Society's 

 career. Both appointees have served as president and 

 Mr. Rudd has already served more years on the Execu- 

 tive Board than any other member, with the single ex- 

 ception of Ex-Secretary Stewart. These gentlemen are 

 thoroughly familiar with the Society's work in the past 

 and its needs for the present and future. 



The time draws near for the annual 

 Improve carnation carnival — this year at Pitts- 

 the shining burgh. A spot so central should, and 

 hour doubtless will, draw a very large attend- 



ance from all directions. The schedule 

 of premiums is liberal and comprehensive, covering the 

 ground very well except that no cognizance is taken of 

 the importance of the retailer in the campaign for main- 

 taining and increasing the popularity of the carnation 

 with the general public. Assuming that the public are 

 to be admitted to see and admire the exhibition, we think 

 that the presentation of some convincing examples of 

 the divine flower's decorative adaptability for various 

 purposes would make an impression and advance the in- 

 terests of the flower locally to an extent far greater than 

 a display in vases only, and we know that Pittsburgh has 

 among her florists some brilliant exponents of floral 

 decorative art and the opportunity to show what* the 

 carnation is capable of in the hands of an artist seems 

 too good to lose. 



It is rather interesting to note how 



A good many organizations devoted to the in- 



name misused terests of agriculture, orcharding, etc., 



are sailing along under the designa- 

 tion of "Horticultural Society," state or local. We 

 find on the same order the so-called horticultural de- 

 partments of certain farming periodicals, treating on 

 potato growing, feeding stufEs, care of milk and similar 

 topics — all useful and "trooly rooral" but horticultural 

 only by very remote association. We have before us an 

 extract from the report of a "horticultural" society 

 located between Boston and Chicago which presents as 

 a subject for consideration at its annual meeting "The 

 Hog of Today and Its Food." Among the topics listed 

 by another is "The Deadly Cigarette." Many such in- 

 stances might be cited and we often find an entire pro- 

 gram devoid of a single item which is legitimately horti- 

 cultural. Perhaps no particular harm is done but there 

 is just one phase of the situation to which we should 

 like to call attention. Many of these organizations are 

 drawing public appropriations ostensibly for the pur- 

 pose of horticultural advancement. Without wishing to 

 appear as disparaging the value of education in any 

 branch of husbandry wc should like to see these things 

 exploited under their proper names or, if State appropri- 

 ations are to be made for horticultural advancement, 

 whv should not the horticulturists of the community in- 

 sist upon their use in accordance? As an example of a 

 really broad-gauge organization, let us commend the 

 Minnesota State Horticultural Society. And there are 

 a few others. 



